I know service has been a bit spotty around here lately, so I’m trying to make it up with this little three-day series, presented without interruption for your viewing pleasure. Thinking of a title for today’s post, it occurred to me that no variety of establishment goes for awful puns in a name more than hair salons, at least around these parts. It’s always something like Mane Event, A Cut Above or Hair It Is. You get the idea. When I was a boy, my mother worked as a hairdresser in a shop named Beauty Unlimited. It certainly was a disingenuous name, but at least it wasn’t a lame attempt at a pun. Me, I got my hair cut at Ozzie’s Barber Shop.
189 responses to “Hair Today, Grown Tomorrow”
America has become a land of bland puns, too true!
From the movie “Earth Girls Are Easy”: A hair salon named “Curl Up & Dye”.
And it wasn’t set in the South.
“Fuzz Busters”
“Clip Joint”
“When Hairy met Sally’s Barbershop”
That one has to do more with American movies’ abusive morals. At least it would never be accepted at a real hair salon, except perhaps in a very abusive neighborhood. But too many don’t know any better than the more innocent—thankfully—but still bland puns such as “A beary nice day.” On a positive note, we still have plenty of comic strips that have puns strong as good coffee, Hart’s B.C. among them.
And the Thaves family.
Frank and Ernest!
Here’s a pretty good recent one.
My dad always referred to the place where my mom had her hair done as the “beauty saloon”. I was probably 10 or 11 years old before I realized that the correct word was “salon”.
Good morning, Villagers. Janis, us Pixie wearers know that it is a lot better to be an attractive girl in a short haircut than have long hair that is thin, draggly, or has split ends. Not to speak of all the time it saves getting ready. Whenever I see an older woman with very long, thin, draggly, etc. hair, I always remember a New Yorker cartoon at my hair salon where a woman is being described as “too old for her hair.”
PS, “saloon” is just a variant of “salon,” both deriving from the French, 1720 or thereabouts. According to my dictionary, anyway.
‘HairBorn Fashions’ in the Chicago suburbs.
I tried to get my stylist to change her salon’s name to “Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow,” but she wouldn’t. I wonder why? 😕
“Have a mental margarita.”
(Not you, Munchkin.)
‘Hair Force’ in the South Bend, IN suburbs.
Hair today,
GROAN tomorrow!
😉
Leslie, that Hair Saloon is a great idea. They could serve wine while the ladies were in the waiting area or under the hair driers.
Jackie, I know you’re busy with your sailboatery stuff, but it would still be good to hear that you and Mike are doing OK.
Love, Ghost
You had a mother who was a hairdresser, but you got your hair cut at a barber shop? Craziness.
I have had my hair trimmed at the same place for many years. A cozy little joint with only one hair stylist, but she is a cute little dish with a quick wit and a biting sense of humor.
The place is known as “the kitchen”, and I always wait until after fixing dinner for my haircut.
Not speaking to the accuracy of this article, but if it’s true, it makes the fact that some people were getting all lathered up about a few hacked nudie pics of some insignificant celebrities seem kind of silly.
http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/mysterious-phony-cell-towers-could-be-intercepting-your-calls
I get my hair cut at exactly the same place as does Bryan. That joint must be chain outfit. Plus the witty dishy stylist really gets around.
I get my hair cut in a shop where my grandfather took my brother and I as kids. The current owners say it’s the oldest barber shop in the county, been in the same spot around 100 years. No cute dishy stylist, but a good, dependable haircut. My old shop got blown away by the big tornado in April of 2011. Tried a couple of the chains, but when I have to remember what cutting guide they used the last time, it got to be too much hassle. At the Northport Barber Shop, when you ask for a short haircut, they know what you mean, and you get what you want.
I have been going to my stylist since I was seventeen. YOu think I’m gonna change now?
Curl up and Dye is the name of a local one here. Where my better half went changed hands after the original owner retired because of illness after 45 years, and basically it was a 2 hair dresser shop. So when my better half gets desperate for a hair appointment now she gambles on the one inside Stuff Mart.
As I have noted previously, my hair stylist is both pulchritudinous and curvaceous, and her clothing is always a bit on the exiguous side, which suits me just fine, and earns her gratuities of 50%. Oh, and it doesn’t hurt that she is a good hair cutter, too.
My stylist is very slim but voluptuous and though she has very pretty hair is always doing weird things to it. She is always trying to get me to try a different cut, especially in the summer when I quit paying her to airbrush tan me.